Mysto the Magician (Earth-616)
Mysto the Magician was a master stage magician who became a spy for Imperial Japan during World War II. Using his skills in illusion, Mysto performed for Camp Lehigh soldiers in the Pacific, where he kidnapped a colonel with a vanishing act and tried to extract military secrets through torture in his booby-trapped home. Captain America and Bucky, in their civilian roles as Steve Rogers and James Barnes, broke into his mansion, overcame Mysto’s traps and hunchbacked minion, and ultimately freed the colonel. Mysto’s arsenal relied entirely on stage tricks and rigged devices rather than real magic, deploying smoke bombs, sliding rugs, mirror mazes, and flamethrowers disguised as stage props. After his defeat, Mysto was arrested by the military. His activities are limited to one main Golden Age comic story, and his fate after capture is unknown.
- Name: Mysto the Magician
- Alias: The Sorcerer
- Universe: Earth-616 (Marvel Multiverse)
- Publisher: Timely/Marvel Comics
- First Appearance: All Winners Comics #4 (March 1942)
- Total Appearances: 1
